Airline baggage

[Cream Soda]

Grandma's flying me up to CA again at the end of July.

I usually fly southwest because I know they have free bag checking, but now they've raised their prices. Cheapest flight I see is $239 (after taxes/fees) vs $189 that I'm finding elsewhere.

That being said, anyone have any experience w/ pricing on different airlines? Like on American Airlines I can only find what you can bring in your bags and the rules, but nothing on the price.

[archibaldcrane]

This link should help: http://tinyurl.com/6kktlbm

[Salodin]

How long you staying? I'd recommend bringing carry on instead, I don't trust airlines with my baggage after spending a day in atlanta's airport because they canceled my connecting flight, lost my luggage in the meantime, and didn't have any cars for me to rent. Spent 14 hours there while they searched for my luggage, and had to have the gf drive from NC to pick me up.

[Cream Soda]

Hmm do you get a carry on and a personal item now days? I always use my back pack as my personal item. I guess I could get a smaller suitcase. approx 14 days give or take

[bechyni]

Most airlines that I have flown you get 1 carryon plus on personal item. Then checked baggage (the big shit) is $25 a bag

[Norellicus]

Southwest didn't raise their prices, you're just trying to book a flight that is less than 8 weeks out which means they're automatically going to charge you a premium. I just booked a flight today for $120 but it's not flying until the end of August.

[Cephius]

Some airlines allow laptop bags as a "personal item" so you could buy a really big laptop bag and stuff a bunch of stuff in that.

[Cream Soda]

Southwest didn't raise their prices, you're just trying to book a flight that is less than 8 weeks out which means they're automatically going to charge you a premium. I just booked a flight today for $120 but it's not flying until the end of August.

lol well they raised it for short term then. I've always got tickets about a month in advance for the past few years and they were still the cheapest as compared to other airlines, lol.

[Amastacia]

You can take a small suitcase as a carry-on (less than 22"), plus a backpack, laptop bag, etc.

I can easily pack a week's worth of clothes into a carry-on, put anything else i need in the backpack. If you're staying for more than a week, you can do laundry.

In other words, checked bags are for suckers and people on international flights.

[Cream Soda]

It's more of the return trip I'm concerned about. My grandma always sends me home w/ so much shit, lol

[Amastacia]

FedEx?

[Xno Kappa]

Might as well pay for the extra luggage instead of using FedEx.

[bechyni]

It's almost to the point it'll be cheaper to fedex/ups shit back then pay for checked baggage

Well depends on the amount of shit

[Salodin]

I'd check the website and see the dimensions accepted for carry on luggage. I used to see a lot of people bring the bare maximum for carry on, plus a backpack they'd use for "personal" use. It gets pretty annoying when they're trying to shove all that shit overhead or under the seat, but I can't blame them when round trip luggage fees are like 50 bucks for most airlines.

For only 14 days, I'd bring a carry on bag and forget checking shit in. Bring 5 or 6 days worth of clothes, reuse a couple of jeans a few times, and wash your shit (better then you wash your food bowls...). Use the money you'd save on bus fair or something.

[Moss]

bare maximum

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I know what you meant but I couldn't help it.

[Salodin]

I knew what it sounded like when I typed it, but I've had a fuzzy head all day and couldn't be bothered to change my wording lol.

[Pikarya]

Be careful. They charge an additional $25.00 per dirty cooking utensil/or bowl in any checked baggage now.

[Pyro]

Currently Spirit Airlines is the only one doing it, but they charge $45 per carry on bag along with charging for checked baggage and they just started charging $5 to print out your boarding pass at the counter and $1 to print it at the kiosk. Except to see the carry on bag charge expand to other airlines, especially the low cost carriers. Speaking of Southwest raising their rates, they have to as their fuel hedging is about to run out and they have started losing ground in certain markets.

[Drex]

$20 each way for me on Airtran a few months ago

[Norellicus]

Be careful. They charge an additional $25.00 per dirty cooking utensil/or bowl in any checked baggage now.

10/10


Re: tons of shit, I would never ever send anything on an airplane that I care deeply about. FedEx that shit with insurance. If something happens, at least you can get the value of it back in a timely fashion...airlines will drag their feet (if they're even liable at all).